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Making a long story epic…(forever travelogue by Jessica Piazza)
Josh and I got into our first heated debate of the trip today. Not a fight—since it was approached in a largely intellectual manner—but certainly it was a passionate discussion containing several points on…
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Much Depends on Dinner: Cooking with Lisa Vihos
L-R: Illia Mazurek, Lisa Vihos, Georg Vihos (Photo by Stephan Mazurek) I met Lisa Vihos when David and I visited Lakeland College in Wisconsin last October. We were in a workshop together and I…
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Photo Diary, and Poetry as Monument (all sorts of travelogue by Jessica Piazza)
We’re still in Marfa, though we made a quick zip over to Ft. Davis, which was a great little town. We stopped at a rattlesnake museum. And the fort itself, an old military post from…
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Mr. Auden, What do you like the most about New York?
<<<As the lunch hour drew to the close, we asked Auden what he liked best about New York, and he said Jewish jokes. He asked if we knew any. I said I was from…
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Mark Doty at the New School [by Liz Howort]
Monday night’s reading marked the concluding Poetry Forum of the semester, and though ordinarily preoccupied with finals, MFA students were strong in number. Mark Doty was no disappointment. His most recent book, Fire to…
